chinese new year dishes

with chinese new year just round the corner, you try to create some chinese new year dishes

 the steamed chicken and ham is so old school that this must be a dish of yesteryears. yet in your memory you recalled your mum prepared this dish and you stood beside her helping with the stacking the chicken with two pieces of ham and dip them in the corn starch sauce.  you made this the other day, but replacing the kailan with broccoli. a very simple dish. there's a more sophisticated version available with chinese ham and whole chicken but what you made is something resembles your mum's version. it's delicious and both of you like this...

 steamed radish cake, this is more the cantonese version of chinese new year dishes because the name is auspicious.

 fish maw soup, this is also a regular and recurring in the new year eve's dinner. you make this soup quite regularly in the lowland now that you got your supply of fish maw, and this time you're using the non-deep fry fish maw, the soup is less oily and yet you got the fish maw taste and nutricient ^^

dishes with arrowhead root, this is again more cantonese than what you used to. but you love the arrowhead root anyway especially when they are braised for a period of time. it's a soothing dish to go with rice...
you guess these are the combination of cantonese dishes and dishes from your childhood. after all you married to a cantonese.
that's what you attempt to recreate for chinese new year, meantime you are somewhere munching away german and switzerland food this week.